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Claude Code vulnerability bypasses delete guard, wipes C: drive

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A critical vulnerability in Claude Code allowed a user's prompt to inadvertently wipe an entire C: drive. The issue arose when Claude Code's system-path guard, designed to prevent deletion of sensitive directories, was bypassed by a quoting bug in a PowerShell command. This bug caused the command to recursively delete the drive root instead of the intended target folder. The incident highlights failures in the guard's ability to inspect resolved command lines, the retry mechanism's lack of awareness of prior blocks, and a timeout feature that allowed the destructive process to continue unsupervised. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical safety failures in AI coding assistants that could lead to data loss if not addressed.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a bug in a specific AI coding tool, not a core model release or research breakthrough.

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Claude Code vulnerability bypasses delete guard, wipes C: drive

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ramdai Bista ·

    Claude Code's Own Delete Guard Was Bypassed by cmd /c — Then a Quoting Bug Wiped a Drive

    <p>A Claude Code session, driven remotely from claude.ai with its working directory set to <code>C:\Windows\System32</code>, was asked to clean up a leftover folder from an old Windows upgrade. Its first delete attempt was correctly blocked by Claude Code's own system-path guard.…

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